A garden of May delights
A couple's life work left the Seattle area a garden of uncommon delights near Graham on the way to Mount Rainier.
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May Day anarchism Italian-style
How do they celebrate May Day in the anarchist heartland of Carrara? With wreaths, wine, beans, and pride.
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Sunday in Amsterdam? Let's go to that cool new Starbucks
A Starbucks concept store proves to be packed on a Sunday. And there's a homey atmosphere for a Seattle company: A neighboring restaurant is called "Rain."
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The Obama administration gets the value of tourism for job creation. All the neighboring states do. Washington is trying to build momentum without state support.
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Take your Euro Sham and shove it!
Flip Side wonders why the Marriott and other hotels insist on loading up his bed with useless and dangerous Shams and Bed Scarfs and tubular thing-eys.
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Train-spotting in Denmark
Struggling on the Mukilteo run, zooming along outside Copenhagen. And not missing the bus.
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Seattle and Brooklyn: a tale of two waterfronts
A Brooklyn waterfront park-in-progress shares many of the same traits and problems with our own waterfront dreams; a compare and contrast imparts a few insights and lessons.
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3/11: The disaster that haunts Japan
Art Thiel in Japan: Members of the Mariners and Oakland A's come to the devastated community of Ishinomaki and saw how shocking the toll remains. A small gesture, the visit was far better than doing nothing.
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Air France's fling with Seattle is ending
After five years of good food on direct flights to Paris, Air France bids adieu to Seattle. Delta will take over the nonstop route.
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Memorable fiascos of Seattle's 1962 world's fair
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World's Fair, it's time to remember some of the crimes and blunders that went along with it. Some even launched new industries.
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Sorry, Seafair, I know Rio, and you're no carnaval
It took a lot of research, and beer, to find out what makes Rio's carnaval the world's greatest street party: its class-busting politics.
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How Isaac Asimov inspired a Seattle space visionary
Remembering the career of Bob Citron, a Bellevue entrepreneur who combined a bit of Rick Steves and Carl Sagan.
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Cruise ships: In Seattle or Italy, they are meant to be impressive
Whether sitting in harbor or, tragically, tilted in the water, cruise ships are out of scale. Perhaps that is part of their attraction.
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12 Northwest escapes for 2012
Need a vacation? Of course you do. It's January in Seattle. A month-by-month travel guide to keep your mood up all through 2012.
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Go south, young musician
Mazatlan meets Mahler, and two formerly frantic freelance viola players from Seattle find steady work and communal musical bliss in Mexico, where orchestras thrive while their counterparts in the U.S. are struggling.
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